English and Vietnamese noun phrases Running head: english and vietnamese noun phrase
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A book, this book, that book, SOME book Some books, those books, these books 1.1 Articles: articles tend to attach themselves to nouns that refer to physical entities. When words are used to refer to an abstract institution, the articles are often omitted whereas the use of an appropriate article is necessary when words refer to concrete entities. “a” and “an” are singular indefinite article, used to introduce a NP into the discourse as in “There are a man and a woman” “some” is plural indefinite article. “Some” is also used with non countable noun. Some of my friends Give me some water “The” occur in a noun phrase if the items have been mentioned before. It is used before definite plural or singular noun All the books The books she gives me 1.2 Possessives (genitives): my, own, his, her These words are called determiners if only they precede a head noun I dislike his brothers They can occur with any kinds of noun thus are not restricted with the regard to the countability and number of the head noun. 1. 3 Demonstratives: Function of demonstratives is to point items out as in “this book” Demonstratives reflect a quality called deixis. We have three kinds of deixis: person, temporal, and spatial (typical). For example, if we want to point out something that is close to us, we use “this” and something far, we use “that” as illustrated below. Каталог: ed -> CA2009 CA2009 -> Ho chi minh city university of education CA2009 -> Word formation in English and Vietnamese CA2009 -> Ho chi minh university of education department of english CA2009 -> Contrastive Analysis CA2009 -> Polite strategies in english and vietnamese imperatives CA2009 -> The English Causative Structure with "Have" and "Get" CA2009 -> Running head: the structure of noun phrase in english and vietnamese tải về 119.74 Kb. Chia sẻ với bạn bè của bạn:
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